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Objetos Americanos En El Museo Delle Curiosità Naturali, Peregrine E Antiche Del Cardenal Flavio I Chigi (1631-1693), Davide Domenici

Tejiendo imágenes. Homenaje a Victòria Solanilla Demestre

Resumen: El Cardenal Flavio Chigi (1631-1693), sobrino del pontífice Alejandro VII (Fabio Chigi), fue un importante coleccionista de arte en la Roma del siglo xvii. Entre sus colecciones, se encontraba el Museo delle curiosità naturali, peregrine e antiche, en donde el cardenal recogió antigüedades, especímenes naturalísticos y objetos de procedencia extraeuropea. El contenido del museo fue registrado, a partir de 1692, en varios inventarios que nos proporcionan una precisa imagen de la colección. En el presente capítulo se analiza el inventario de 1692 con el fin de identificar los objetos de posible procedencia americana, para dividirlos en grupos, entender su …

Germans In The New World: Essays In The History Of Immigration, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

In some respects the new immigration history contrasts strongly with the old. Whereas the traditional was assimilationist and stressed the cultural contributions of the newcomers, the new is more often pluralist and focuses on cultural conflict. The old tended to describe individual accomplishment and, drawing upon readily available sources such as letters, speeches, diaries, and other qualitative sources, was unintentionally elitist; the new analyzes the relationships of the ethnic group (i.e., the masses of ordinary people of limited skills in communication) with elements of the receiving society, including other ethnocultural collectivities. It uses quantitative sources, such as census manuscripts, tax …

Germans In Brazil: A Comparative History Of Cultural Conflict During World War I, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

The first three chapters establish the historical context for understanding what happened to the Germans in Brazil during the period of the war in Europe and its immediate aftermath, 1914 to 1920. The large pattern of German settlement in Brazil, offered in Chapter I, is followed by a study of German ethnic institutions--churches, schools, societies--and the German-language press to reveal literacy levels, religious and linguistic characteristics, and the measure of assimilation (or lack thereof) into Brazilian society. Ethnic group relations, perceptions, and images, along with attendant concerns and fears, are analyzed next to show how and why the Brazilian majority …

A Prelude To Conflict: The German Ethnic Group In Brazilian Society, 1890-1917, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

The anti-German riots in Brazil in 1917 are better understood within a larger context of ethnic history: the behavior of the dominant Luso-Brazilians (persons of Portuguese language and culture) and the minority TeutoBrazilians (as the Germans were often called) may be best interpreted if examined historically in terms of ethnic group relations, perceptions, and images.

Because of the accidents of time and place, the Germans in Brazil had been allowed to develop their own society without much interference. By the 1880s, the last years of the Brazilian Empire, they had become a society within a society - a large, diverse, …